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LinkedIn Data Breach Still Causing Problems

Mark Zuckerberg’ , Linkedin , passwords , Hack , SHA1 , haveibeenpwned.com , cannabis , Enterprise

Michelle Drolet

Failing to take basic security precautions with website passwords puts your data at risk Do you remember back in 2012 when LinkedIn was hacked? Around 6.5 million user passwords were posted on a Russian blog. There was a mandatory password reset for affected users, and LinkedIn released a statement advising people to enable two-step verification and use stronger passwords. Four years later, and the passwords of 117 million accounts were compromised. Worryingly, this came to light only when afalse